Twelve Unhealthy and Unprofitable Eating Habits (Photo Gallery)
In daily life, some food combinations have a long history, and their delicious flavors are widely accepted. It is also customary to feel that these pairings are natural. However, from a health perspective, they are not scientific, and health experts have more than enough reasons to say so. Here we list 12 food combinations that health experts consider incorrect. However, not eating them this way, some things are really not tasty. I guess eating this way less often might not be a big problem. If you value your health, you should still follow the experts' advice and not be a glutton.
1. Starting with Carbonated Drinks
Carbonated drinks like cola and soda are just carbonated water with sugar and coloring. They have zero nutritional value and are very cheap. Drinking carbonated drinks first can not only cause burping and bloating but also significantly reduce your appetite. Moreover, the calories in one can of cola are equivalent to a bowl of rice. If you drink more, you might exceed your calorie limit for the meal before you even start eating other things. If you really want a sweet drink, fresh fruit and vegetable juices are a better choice.
2. Eating Fish and Seafood on an Empty Stomach
Fish and seafood are rich in protein, but if eaten on an empty stomach, this protein is converted into energy and wasted. It not only fails to nourish the body but can also increase its burden.
In addition, eating large amounts of seafood and fish on an empty stomach can increase the body's absorption of purines, which may lead to gout.
3. Indulging in Cream Cake
Cream cakes may look beautiful, but they are essentially just a colorful costume made of food coloring and vegetable cream. In terms of cost, they are less than one yuan per piece. In terms of nutrition, they are high in oil and sugar, and the trans fatty acids in vegetable cream are more harmful to the body than lard. If you want to eat cake without worrying about gaining weight, cheesecake has higher nutritional value, is more expensive, and you can have a small piece to satisfy your craving.
4. Boiling Eggs with Tea
Besides alkaloids, tea also contains acidic substances. These compounds combine with the iron in eggs, which can irritate the stomach and is not conducive to digestion and absorption.
5. Adding MSG to Scrambled Eggs:
Eggs themselves contain a lot of glutamic acid, which is the same component as MSG. Therefore, adding MSG when scrambling eggs not only fails to enhance the umami flavor but can also destroy and mask the natural savory taste of the eggs.
6. Eating Red and White Radishes Together:
White radishes are extremely high in vitamin C, but red radishes contain an enzyme called ascorbic acid oxidase, which destroys the vitamin C in white radishes. Once red and white radishes are combined, the vitamin C in the white radish is completely lost. Not only that, when cooked with other vegetables containing vitamin C, the red radish plays the role of a destroyer. Cucumbers, pumpkins, and others also contain similar enzymes as red radishes.
7. Eating Radishes with Fruit:
In recent years, scientists have discovered that after cruciferous vegetables like radishes enter the body, they are metabolized quickly to produce an anti-thyroid substance—thiocyanate. The amount of this substance produced is directly proportional to the intake. At this time, if you consume fruits rich in plant pigments such as oranges, pears, apples, and grapes, the flavonoids in these fruits are broken down by bacteria in the intestine into substances like hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid. These can enhance the effect of thiocyanate in inhibiting the thyroid, thus inducing or causing goiter.
8. Eating Seafood with Fruit:
Seafood like fish, shrimp, and algae are rich in protein and calcium. If eaten with fruits containing tannic acid, it not only reduces the nutritional value of the protein but also easily causes the calcium in the seafood to combine with the tannic acid to form a new substance that is difficult to digest. This substance can irritate the stomach, causing discomfort, abdominal pain, vomiting, and nausea. Fruits with high tannic acid content include persimmons, grapes, pomegranates, hawthorn, and green plums. Therefore, these fruits should not be eaten with seafood dishes at the same time; it is best to wait for two hours.
9. Drinking Milk with Oranges:
Drinking milk and then immediately eating oranges will cause the protein in the milk to coagulate with the citric acid and vitamin C in the oranges, forming lumps that affect digestion and absorption. It can also lead to symptoms like bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
10. Eating Carrots with Alcohol:
Recently, American food experts have warned people that eating carrots with alcohol is very dangerous. Experts point out that because the rich beta-carotene in carrots enters the body along with alcohol, it produces toxins in the liver, which can lead to liver disease. In particular, you should not drink alcohol immediately after drinking carrot juice.
11. Drinking Liquor with Soda:
Because drinking liquor and soda together quickly causes alcohol to vaporize throughout the body and produces large amounts of carbon dioxide, it has serious harmful effects on organs like the stomach, intestines, liver, and kidneys, and also damages the cardiovascular system.
12. Drinking Tea While Eating Meat:
Some people drink tea soon after eating high-protein foods like meat and seafood, thinking it aids digestion. What they don't realize is that the large amount of tannic acid in tea combines with protein to form tannic acid protein, which has an astringent effect. This slows down intestinal peristalsis, thereby prolonging the time stool stays in the intestine. This not only easily leads to constipation but also increases the possibility of the body absorbing toxic and carcinogenic substances.